ARCANE Project
Bielinski, Piotr (1948, Polish)
is Professor at the Dept. of Near Eastern Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, and Dean of the Faculty of History, at Warsaw University (Poland). He is Member of the Committee for Pre- and Protohistoric Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Committee for Ancient Civilizations Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as a UNESCO Expert for the archaeology of Ancient Mesopotamia. Since 1984 he has been directing archaeological excavations in Iraq (Tell Raffan, Tell Rijim) and Syria (Tell Djassa el-Gharbi, Tell Rad Shaqrah) and is now co-Director of the Syro-Polish archaeological expedition to Tell Arbid (Syria). He authored two monographic studies and ca 40 articles on different archaeological subjects (including preliminary excavation reports).